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Obama Report Emphasizes Importance of Hispanic Achievement in Education

April 27, 2011, 3:38 pm

The Obama administration released a report today at Miami Dade College that outlines the federal programs in place to support Hispanic students. The report, “Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community,” highlights community colleges and technical and adult education as two important avenues for Latinos pursuing postsecondary education. Latino students with a high-school diploma are only half as likely as their peers to be prepared for college, and only 4 percent have completed graduate- or professional-degree programs, according to the report. President Obama, who is due to speak at the college’s commencement on Friday, also emphasized in the report the importance of strengthening both Hispanic-serving institutions and the Pell Grant program.

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  • akprof

    This is cool – now there needs to be a companion program for Native American students!!

  • redsucker

    Um this makes me really uncomfortable: To whom is the president speaking? To Caribbean, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, El Salvadoran, Mexican, Columbian, Brazilian, etc. students? That would be smart: Both admitting there is a cultural problem and addressing the individuals involved in that problem. Or is he warning (as he so often does) the professorate and administrations that they better start getting the aforementioned students “acheiving”? And how exactly does a professor do that without affirmative/unfair/illegally elevating atcivities in the classroom? Pell Grants help “La-Ti-nos” (president’s patronizing affected pronounciation) in the classroom specifically how? Generalities and mandates are not the same as leadership, and more money does not make a Spanish speaking student more likely to succeed. AK Prof Ditto for America Indian students (Library of Congress now calls former Native Americans this now, yes? When will they get it up to speed with most Archeology depts and call them “earlier immigrants”?)

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